Web Key Directory - Web Key Directories provide an easy way to discover public keys through HTTPS. They provide an important piece to the infrastructure to improve the user experience for exchanging secure emails and files. In contrast to the public keyservers a Web Key Directory does not publish mail addresses. And it is an authoritative pubkey source for its domain.

On September 13, after a five-year legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights said that the UK government’s surveillance regime—which includes the country’s mass surveillance programs, methods, laws, and judges—violated the human rights to privacy and to freedom of expression.

CrypTool Portal - cryptography for everyone. That CrypTool was originally designed as an internal business application for information security training. CrypTool has since developed into an important open-source project in the field of cryptology.

For those who didn’t know, this is the talk by #Eben_Moglen that inspired four students in New York to launch #diaspora*, the first #decentralized#socialnetwork. Eben was talking about a solution though where you’d hold your account in your own pocket, so to speak. It was never about pods or #federation. Incidentally, this original vision is fulfilled more accurately by now in the form of a project named #Scuttlebutt .